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Responsibilities

- Work with CSEQ and Cargo staff to manage ground safety reports and hazards as required, ensuring safety investigations are conducted appropriately and safety issues in all operational arenas are addressed with appropriate preventative strategies implemented.
- Develop and implement appropriate protocols and practices to receive, review, validate, process, investigate, and finalize cargo safety reports, observations, and hazard submissions.
- Provide oversight to safety work and ensure SIMS tasks are properly completed and where required, appropriate follow-up activities are documented and assigned.
- Conduct verification activities to identify, analyze and investigate cargo safety hazards and latent risks. Direct and manage activities to complete proper risk assessment of Cargo and ground safety issues where required.
- Serve as the SIMS system expert for the cargo safety modules. Develop and provide training and counsel for managers and staff as requested by Cargo Branch Senior Management. Train Cargo operations staff regarding the use of SIMS and prepare annual refresher activities to enhance CSEQ software knowledge.
- Develop complex reports, data trends and research reports to address regional Issues and share this information across the Cargo Workplace.
- Manage complex studies and support requests for safety data from a range of clients including Branch Managers, Business Intelligence and Executive Management.




- Provide expert input and feedback to Cargo staff regarding SIMS – Ground Reports.
- Provide directions to the Cargo Branch regarding safety issues, trends, and reports.
- Provide direct support, inputs, and analytical support to the Vice President Cargo for the Cargo Branch Safety Board. This will include presenting regional safety statistics, hazards, trends and top concerns and advice about mitigations and best practices. Highlight major issues and concerns and offer performance and safety comparisons with industry.
- Maintain a close professional working relationship with the front-line Cargo Managers and their staff across the region and ensure effective two-way personal communications between line Managers and CSEQ.
- Acts as or delegates a designated investigator in the event of an incident or accident based on severity of event (Yellow, Orange, Red) as per the Emergency Response Manual (Publication 400) and the Flight Operations Manuals.
- Fully participate in Safety Action Groups and undertake safety related projects as directed by the senior leadership team.
- Provide inputs and analytical support for the following meetings: Safety event Review, Quality Manager’s Meeting, Inter-branch Risk Assessment Standards Committee, Operations Safety Board.




- Act as a subject matter expert and delegate responsibility for Cargo Safety operation participation on inter-branch risk assessments.
- Perform and guide risk assessments at the cargo station level, of potential and identified hazards through continuous monitoring of safety, environment and security data and statistical analysis.
- Ensure persons delegated to risk assessment duties at the station/local level have the proper training and support to facilitate risk assessment activities.
- Ensure completed risk assessments are presented to, reviewed, and signed off by the responsible Decision Owner.
- Ensure compliance level monitoring is implemented across the station network through the utilization of quality control level activities (inspections)
- Align auditing methods and processes with peers; provide input in the development of performance targets and new tools/capabilities.
- Continually monitor internal processes and the cargo operating environment to detect changes or deviations that may introduce emerging safety hazards or degradation of existing risk controls.
- Support the Cargo Branch in preparation for Transport Canada Safety Management System (SMS) and IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) Assessments.
- Monitoring that CAPs have been completed within prescribed timelines and have been evaluated for effectiveness.
- Support the Manager, Cargo Quality Assurance in the development of audit checklists including audit questions, sample size, and the identification of critical and non-critical findings; support with other planning tasks to ensure success of the Audit team.
- Ensure the Cargo branch meets its regulatory obligations in accordance with Transport Canada and IOSA requireme

📌 Principal, Corporate Safety Assurance and Compliance (Toronto)
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